This is probably extremely cynical, but does floydhub have a vested interest in promoting genetic algorithms because they can take long times to train, especially with neural networks hyper parameters as the search space. These kind of beefy, complex training processes would be fantastic for its business.
I think this is a reasonable insight into their business model. Especially if they are able to somehow cheaply spin up long-running processes. Not sure how they might be able to do that, though. Conventional tech is all about short term processes.
